...to a legislative body such as a city council. EP BRADSTREET AND CLARK & SIMON FOR APPELLANTS. 1. " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...possesses and can exercise the following powers and no othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily...

...effect the purposes of their creation. In the work to which reference has been made it is stated : " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the [New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First,...

...is not within the scope of the general powers of municipalities. Dillon lays down the rule that: " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...of the corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts...

...unless the municipal authorities possess, under the constitution, the right to exercise such powers. "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...of the corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of the power is resolved by the...

...shall appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Dillon Mnn. Corporations, Sec. 55 ; Spaulding v. Lowell, 23 Rich. 71, 74. Our case seems to fall within...

...Holland v. Baltimore, 11 Md. 186. Extent of Power— Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts...

...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that "They can exercise the following powers and no others: First,...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...

...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that " They can exercise the following powers, and no others :...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...

...law," says a distinguished jurist and eminent commentator in his excellent treatise on this subject, "that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...purposes of the corporation— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of apprehension, or conviction of...

...necessarily implied, or necessarily incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those absolutely essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable; and any fair doubt as to the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against...